Totally crazy.
t coughs When is the next update? t coughs
Mal: That's not what I saw. You like to tell me what really happened? Book: I surely would. And maybe someday I will.
'Safe'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2008 7:02:17 pm PST #5248 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dana - Feb 23, 2008 7:04:21 pm PST #5249 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Working on it, I swear!
Hey, look, is that a bear?
t runs away
Lee - Feb 23, 2008 7:15:01 pm PST #5250 of 10436
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
bear?
Eeek.
shrift - Feb 23, 2008 7:40:09 pm PST #5251 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
We are working on an update pretty hardcore, actually.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2008 8:12:39 pm PST #5252 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
YAY
Laga - Feb 23, 2008 8:13:32 pm PST #5253 of 10436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
ooh thanks for the link!
edit: wow my first pick is so great. Curses! I'm hooked.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 23, 2008 11:51:26 pm PST #5254 of 10436
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Woah, late back to this discussion.
But I'm balking a bit at dismissing this sewing-together as self-congratulatory timewasting.
I think that two things are going on here.
One, I've read (or started reading; perhaps I should have known better) rather a lot of crossovers where the sewing-together was overlong, unconvincing, and delayed our introductions to the characters. If the sewing-together works, that's great; but I think a fair number of bad crossover stories could be lifted to moderate or at least more interesting by cutting out blatantly weak sewing-together. If you do have a really interesting and convincing reason for these two sets of characters to be interacting (and you tell it well, as a part of the story not as an essay on spaceships or string theory), then I'll listen; if your explanation is more about cleverness than storytelling, I'd rather you skip pretending that you do and just get on with the story.
In light of which, my original post should probably have said "some people" rather than "people", but I seem to have been in the mood for a sweeping generalisation.
And two, in direct response to your example:
AJ Hall's Harry Potter/Vorkosigan crossovers don't really work for me for precisely this reason - I'm enjoying the characters' interactions, but I'm also frantically going "...but, but wtf? how? why? what? how?" and that gets in the way of enjoying the stories.
Those crossovers do work for me for precisely for this reason. I didn't have time to get bored with the sewing-together or setup. She took me straight into characters (who were, when I first read them, from a totally unknown universe) and made me interested in them. If she'd spent ten pages, maybe even two pages, telling me all about how they got there, I probably would have stopped reading, even AJ Hall's usually sparkling prose.
From that, I conclude that it's a matter of taste. I'm glad you were here to represent another point of view.
Aims - Feb 24, 2008 6:25:04 am PST #5255 of 10436
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hey, look, is that a bear?
Undo it! Undo it!
Beverly - Feb 24, 2008 8:22:20 am PST #5256 of 10436
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::hugs the Empress. just because::
Aims - Feb 25, 2008 4:19:39 am PST #5257 of 10436
Shit's all sorts of different now.
::hugs Beverly back. Just cause.::